Item Recovery

Item recovery includes the following methods:

• VM file restore — to restore VM files (.VMX, .VMXF and so on) without restoring the entire VM.

The process of VM files restore for VMware Cloud Director VMs does not differ from that for regular VMware vSphere VMs. For more information, see Restoring VM Files.

• Restoring VM hard disks — to restore VM disks. When you restore disks, you extract them from backups to the production storage.

The process of VM hard disks restore for VMware Cloud Director VMs does not differ from that for regular VMware vSphere VMs. For more information, see Restoring Virtual Disks.

• Restoring VM guest OS files — to recover individual guest OS files from Windows, Linux, Mac and other guest OS file systems.

The process of VM guest files restore for VMware Cloud Director VMs does not differ from that for regular VMware vSphere VMs. For more information, see Restoring VM Guest OS Files (FAT, NTFS or ReFS) and Restoring VM Guest OS Files (Multi-OS).